Ernst von Bandel practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Ernst von Bandel as German architect and sculptor (1800–1876).
Ernst von Bandel was born at Ansbach in 1800. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Bavaria. He trained at Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg and Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
He is recorded as architect, sculptor and painter.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
Recognition followed: Order of the Saxe-Ernestine and honorary citizen of Detmold.
That the work was built in Kingdom of Bavaria shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Ernst von Bandel died in 1876, aged 76. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Order of the Saxe-Ernestine
- honorary citizen of Detmold
- Trained at Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg and Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
